UPSC CSE FAQs

For UPSC CSE, you need to be intelligent, have the presence of mind and the right attitude to tackle challenging situations. It's important to create a study plan that suits your individual strengths, weaknesses, and circumstances. It's also a good idea to consult with experienced mentors, previous successful candidates, or coaching institutes to get a better idea of how to structure your preparation timeline.

In order to prepare for the UPSC IAS exam successfully, candidates should choose the best books available online and offline.

The ideal test to start full-time preparation for UPSC is one year before the prelims exam. Apart from that always stay in touch with newspapers and what is happening around the world.

NCERT is generally recommended as the first step for civil service aspirants preparing for the UPSC. Before reading other standard reference books, you should read these. Simply put, they help in building a strong foundation.

Aspirants starting civil services preparation often find themselves in cold water, when it comes to prepartion strategy to ace this examination.  Aspirants find it difficult to identify the time frame in which they can clear this examination.  GS SCORE is providing, a suitable time table along with a plan of action to make aspirants' decision-making process easier, so that students can study and clear this examination through this process.

There is no fixed answer to question that; when should you start preparation of civil services examination?  Answer to this question will vary according to the person to person. This is very much person-specific question.

Generally, UPSC update the examination date and schedule at least 1 year before the examination.  So, make sure that as student you should have knowledge about what will be the procedure of the examination by visiting UPSC website.

IAS Aspirants should formulate a well-set strategy comprising of the both flexible and rigid plan of action for the civil services examination. As of now, there is time for the examination. In this time, you can set the well-defined strategy that can do wonders in your preparation. Aspirants should identify their key subjects (stronger and weaker subjects) as what they needs to do and how they can cover these subjects in, limited frame of the time.

Civil services examination is tiring and regressive process. It requires candidates to punch above the belt in order to clear this examination. During this entire process, candidates should always remember that, why they started the preparation of IAS Examination.

Before asking this question that; when one should start preparation of Civil Services Examination, one should always keep in mind the vastness and lengthiness of the syllabus which require at least 1 year of fully dedicated preparation for clearing UPSC examination.

Before taking this decision that why should you prepare for the civil services examination? It is very important that you should have genuine and strong reasons behind you for this purpose. Because, when things will not go well according to your plan of action then this strong believe will help you in not letting it quit.

Answer of this question is yes and no, both.  Do you need coaching or not? It totally depends upon you and only you. We hear every single year that aspirants cracking IAS examination without getting any coaching. So, the question then arises is that; why some aspirants clear this prestigious exam without coaching and some can’t clear it all even after enrolling themselves in coaching?